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Show Older People Not Justified in Condemnation of the Youth of Today By DEAN C. M. WOODWARD, Emory (Ga.) University. Since youth today possesses more information and knowledge. Is more intelligent than their predecessors, it is necessary to impress them with the reality and character of God in order to get them to co-operate with the moving force behind the universe. Youth today knows more about the world in all its phases than those of any other period in the race's history and youth today has a wider freedom of choice than youth has ever had. With all its progress in every branch of human activity, the world has not had time to devise means of handling the knowledge it has obtained. ob-tained. I wonder if older people are justified in criticising the youth of today. In my opinion, youth can be relied upon. The change from the home of the past, when authority and discipline held sway, and the present pres-ent condition when the child has about as much contact with other spheres of life as the home, emphasizes the need of development of internal control con-trol and youth should be made to realize the reality and character of God. By using intelligence youth can co-operate with. God in the development develop-ment of a world personality. |